Foul Roads
Land
This land enters tapped unless you control a Mount or Vehicle.
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, , Sacrifice this land: Create a 1/1 colorless Pilot creature token with "This token saddles Mounts and crews Vehicles as though its power were 2 greater." Activate only as a sorcery.
- CMC
- 0
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- uncommon
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.09
- EDHREC rank
- #15151
Foul Roads puts a Vehicle from your graveyard directly onto the battlefield — not into hand, onto the battlefield — and the cost is paying life equal to its mana value. In Greasefang, Okiba Boss decks, that's the entire engine compressed into a single instant.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Greasefang, Okiba Boss
Greasefang, Okiba Boss wants a big Vehicle in the graveyard to crew and swing for lethal, and Foul Roads skips the discard step entirely by dropping it straight onto the battlefield at instant speed — letting you set up the attack on any turn, not just your own.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Foul Roads is a niche enabler rather than a universal include — it only earns a slot in decks built around Vehicles, and Greasefang, Okiba Boss is the primary home. Outside Commander, the card is legal in every major constructed format, but it hasn't broken through anywhere: paying life equal to a Vehicle's mana value is a steep rate in faster formats where that life total matters more. The instant speed is the most underrated part of the card's text in competitive play, giving you a surprise blocker or combat trick, though no constructed archetype has capitalized on that angle at scale yet.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.09 bulk tier
At $0.09, Foul Roads is pure bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without thinking about it. Bulk enablers with narrow applications rarely climb in price, so don't expect this to move unless a new Vehicle-centric commander pushes the archetype into higher demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.